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29.05.2024 18:21 At the meeting of European Union defense ministers held in Brussels today, discussions focused on military support for Ukraine and Europe's defense readiness. Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also participated in the discussion.

29.05.2024 18:21 The Dutch government proposes to quickly assemble a Patriot air defense system in close cooperation with several partners and deliver it to Ukraine. The Netherlands will contribute core components and parts from its stock and invites European countries to add components from theirs.

29.05.2024 18:21 Belgium will deliver 977 million euros in military aid and 30 F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine under a 10-year bilateral security agreement signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on May 28 in Brussels.

29.05.2024 18:21 Georgian lawmakers approved an override of President Salome Zurabishvili's veto of the so-called "foreign agent" law, angering protesters gathered outside parliament and jeopardizing the country's drive toward the European Union.

29.05.2024 18:21 The United States expressed "deep concern" Tuesday over an apparent Israeli airstrike Sunday that killed at least 45 Palestinians sheltering in a refugee camp in Rafah and wounded 200 others. The U.S. said it has urged Israel to conduct a full investigation.

29.05.2024 18:21 The Defense Department is working to recover three of four vessels associated with its temporary humanitarian aid pier in Gaza after rough seas caused the motorized sections to run aground May 25, the Pentagon announced today.

29.05.2024 18:21 The Cambodian and Chinese navies have wrapped up their largest joint drills to date in the Gulf of Thailand which included a mock hostage rescue, Cambodia's defense ministry said.

29.05.2024 18:21 U.N. officials warn medicine and fuel supplies in Gaza are drying up as humanitarian workers struggle to provide life-saving care to an ever-expanding population of sick and wounded.

29.05.2024 18:21 UN agencies on Tuesday reiterated their call for an urgent ceasefire and humanitarian access in Gaza following Israeli air strikes on Sunday that hit a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, killing 45 people, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.

29.05.2024 18:21 The government of Republika Srpska has withdrawn a controversial proposed "foreign agent" law from the agenda of the National Assembly.

29.05.2024 18:21 The United States said on Tuesday that United Nations Resolution 2758, adopted in 1971, does not endorse the People's Republic of China's sovereignty claim over Taiwan, following Taiwan's exclusion from this week's World Health Assembly sessions.

29.05.2024 18:21 Taiwan's opposition-controlled parliament has passed a set of legal amendments granting lawmakers greater investigative power to scrutinize the government under President Lai Ching-te, who took office on May 20.

29.05.2024 18:21 The Albanese Government continues to progress Australia's conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarine program, today announcing the concept design partners for South Australia's new Nuclear-Powered Submarine Construction Yard .

29.05.2024 18:21 Police in Hong Kong on Tuesday arrested jailed human rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung and five other people — the first arrests to be made under the recently passed Article 23 security law — for making social media posts with "seditious intent" ahead of the anniversary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre.

29.05.2024 18:21 China's Embassy in Washington has dismissed calls by Hong Kong activists for the city's economic and trade offices to be closed in the United States.